BEOMUS MULTIFLORUS. { Trans. Lin. Soc
Many-flowered. Broom-grass.
Spec. C h a r. Panicle u p rig h t, b u t in c lining; peduncle supporting a single spicula,
containing from twelve to eighteen florets.
The genus Bromus has been so little attended to, or botanists so partially understood each other, that
several of the species have been considered rarer than in reality they are, but as our knowledge of
them becomes more extended, they will perhaps no longer be considered as confined to an individual
station, but similar soils in different counties be found to produce them: of these scarce species B.
multiflorus has been little known, and certainly has been confounded with B. secalinus. The panicle
consists of only a few spiculae, from four to seven; the peduncles support one, or very rarely two
spiculae; each spicula containing from twelve to sixteen or eighteen florets; florets ribbed, roughish,
but not woolly: leaves hairy on the inner side, woolly on the outer; sheathing with hairs pointing
downwards: .the plant attains the height o f a foot, or a foot and an half. ---------We sometimes find
a variety o f this Bromus in which the peduncles, corolla, and calyx, have a considerable degree of
pubescence, but in that case the florets in the spicula have been fewer in number than in the smooth
species.— —We have seen this plant about Maudsley, in the county of Lanerk, and plentifully in a
lucem field near Thorp Arch, Yorkshire.
A, the Calyx.
B, the Corolla.
C, D, the Calyx and Corolla of the pubescent variety.